rooted in militant islam. and that s why this regime will always be an enemy of america. you are watching history be made today. this hour, exploding with breaking news. you re just hearing there the speech that was here live on fox news channel a short time ago from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. why is it historical? a lot of reasons. for one he just laid out a case for why you cannot trust iran and what they re really grounded in. how important is that? what does it make our president look like political ly? i think it s very important to lay out the threat and it s one of the most striking things of the six wreerz of the obama administration. we have not yet to this point in the administration heard a single speech from a senior administration official devoted to laying out the threat from iran in the way that we heard, just heard from benjamin netanyahu. and i think we need to have a discussion about the threat from iran just as we needed to have a debate about
pointed out in the next election because you look at how popular benjamin netanyahu was going into this speech a 45% approval rating here in the u.s. among the american people, higher than it s been in a long time. you look at the standing ovation that he got coming into that chamber politicians clamoring to the aisle to be next to him to shake his hand the cheers the powerful speech he gave and the applause that s what it looks like to be a politician surround by folks who love you. a lot of politicians in this next election are going to be tested on do you line up with israel or not? israel does need us they need our money. i think it broadened or changed the discussion. he brought ened it. he brought it to something we ve been debating here at home which is the threat of militant islam and he said, look. the last thing you want is militant islam to get a nuclear weapon. if you re watching netanyahu
naive to trust such an untrustworthy regime. i also thought, harris, it was tricky for the white house to message this. he linked isis to iran and he compared them saying they are both pursuing a crown of militant islam which, look that s a pretty accurate, i think, depiction but it puts the white house in a tough position to make a case and a compelling one on their own for what they re doing because not only have they made a compelling case they haven t made any case. what s interesting about what he said and how did he it he called it a game of thrones. he tossed it into the current ven ak lar of tv viewing. and i m glad you point that out. i thought one of the most important things and this administration has an allergy to logic clearly and what the prime minister did aside from of course it was a political speech and he had well crafted lines in order to score points but one of the contrasts he drew that i thought was powerful saying about the ayatollah he spewed